New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-13
PERSONAL.

Tho Prince OF Naples recently wfote a poem on
classic Greek subject and asked sisnor VERDI to set
1t 10 music for the Queens ietc The ilustIious COM
poser returned it him day with this messenger
"It took hour and half to read your Royal
IIishncsss verse The person charged 10 sing IL
would have TO work hard all day. As for the COM
poser 20 set IL 20 music, 10 must be younger man
than your devoted servant, Nenll."
King Humbcrt, Of italy, does not like to attend
places OF entertainment In solitary state, tho late
King Ludwig OF Bavaria did, and even Queen Vio'
tOria does lilo wants his people to DO present with
him. At the opening of tho exhibition at Venice the
King gave expression to his disappointment at the
loneliness and emptiness OF the halls An Official
told him that the public had been kept out from loyal
consideration for the comfort OF himself and the Queen
II AN sorry this" said his Majesty, though you
King belongs TO tho people as we'll as tho people to
tho king" Before leaving tho exhibition he REQUIRED
TO the , soIS n. a ~ ToS beye said bc that am
the sort Of man who ls shy OF being seen among tne
E Ssp h''0 no grounds whatever '0r 'a'n '''
Mr.. Joseph Cook has gone to his summer hoIne'
Cliff Seat, on Lake George
Prlnceton's class Of 1877 will have a reunion oil
June 81. 1t numbered when graduated lib mem
bers and was the largest up that time IL has now
in the faculty Professors ormond o'Neu. Osborn,
Libby and scott ormond Is the successor OF the
venerable loglcan, Professor Lyman 5. Atwater;
ONeil il with Professor Young In the departments
OF ASTRONOMY Libbey is virtual of the
eminent geologlst, Arnold Guyot and Scott Is a
'lndson Of PIlncetOn's greatest theooglan Charles
omaha Bee; ". Is. Bryan OF" The Washington fost
F. T.. Glass, Of "lhe selma Times; l. ,. MOtt, or
"The Newark Journal" and q large number OF sue
cessfu lawyers and business men In various parts
Of tho country
George w Beach, the superintendent OF the Maui
gatuclt Railroad just leased by tho NewYork, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad has been with that
CORPORATION since no seventeen years Of age, be-
ginning As brakeman and rising TO conductor, then TO
assistant SUPERINTENDENT He has made II prac
tcc 10 walk over the entire length OF the road ex-
aiming its bed. rails and bridges and rolling stock
Mr. Beach conductor Is assistant sunerintendent
Of the road and superintendent OF the rolling stooh'
Mr. Richard W. Glider will deliver the address to
tho graduating class Of Wells college, Aurora N Y,
commencement, June ~
Ex-senator Mcdonald and wife, of Indiana, set out
to-day on q months jaunt to Washington Fortress
Monroe and elsewhere
Marshal Canrobcrt last Tuesday celebrated his
seventy-oghth birthday anniversary.
Sir Henry Alfred Joseph Doughty Tichborne will
today, tomorrow and wednesday celebrate with
great festivities his coming Of age, which actually
occurred on May %, His father died shortly before
tho present baronet was born, and the title and es-
tates-the latter worth $125,oo0 year-were hve
.r, l,ter cloimcd by one Thomas Castro, alias Or
ton who pretended 10 be Sir Roger Tchborne The
trial that ensued was one OF the most remafKaDie
I'm tho history Of the English bar. Inc result Vi III
al, was that the man Castro convicted OF per-
Jury and sent to jail for fourteen years de recently
fegalnod his freedom and made an aooruVe attempt
at lecturing.
Mr. william d. Howells Is at Saratoga
The Boston Papyrus Club has contributed $500
toward building Walt Whitman cottage